Review - Charles Ives: The RCA and Columbia Album Anthology
Richard Whitehouse on an inviting anniversary collection devoted to Charles Ives
Lirone player Erin Headley (co-founder of Tragicomedia) now has her own group, Atalante, who here present the third volume of...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2014
This follows the pattern of Sabine Devieilhe’s recital ‘Le grand théâtre de l’amour’ (Erato, 2/14) by fashioning a sequence of...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2014
This is an original and inventive anthology of songs by Spanish composers, but avoiding the Castilian language, presenting instead works...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 07/2014
A master miniaturist, Peter Warlock is at his best in the songs – both solo and choral – that make...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2014
Anyone familiar with the old Philips recording (6/55) of Stravinsky conducting his Oedipus rex, and Jean Cocteau summoning the audience...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 07/2014
In his introduction to the booklet Thomas Hampson says that he wanted to mark Strauss’s 150th anniversary by offering a...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 07/2014
Shostakovich’s songs continue to lag behind the rest of his output in terms of their representation on recordings and in...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 07/2014
It seems these days as though every self-respecting chamber choir is keen to record Rachmaninov’s monumental a cappella masterpiece as...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 07/2014
Voces8 here make use of their intermediate size – neither a choir nor strictly a one-to-a part ensemble – to...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2014
Glasgow-based Linn Records continues to do well by its Scottish artists. As anybody who has heard Karen Cargill in 19th-century...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 07/2014
Richard Whitehouse on an inviting anniversary collection devoted to Charles Ives
Reinvented almost 60 years since the introduction of the original, this preamp/power amp combination...
‘What emerges is a sense of a musician of true grit and principle, one who fought for what she...
Andrew Farach-Colton on the Channel Classics recordings of Pieter Wispelwey
Rob Cowan immerses himself in collections devoted to three composers and a quartet
David Gutman welcomes two collections released to celebrate the conductor’s career
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